My house foundation agrees with you.
My house foundation agrees with you.
I'm not sure why some here want to try to convert western water issues to central Oklahoma water issues. OKC doesn't even have some if its biggest water assets online yet. We are provided for well into the future and are making constant investments in our water infrastructure. The sky may indeed be falling in Las Vegas, but that's just not the case here.
There may be a time when the courage of man fails and an odd/even cycle is really necessary, but it is not this time. That cylce was put into place in the midst of an historic drought. It can be put back into place again if needs be. And even back when we were in a historic drought, we came nowhere close to running dry. We had safeguards in palce in the Canton reservoir, and in retrospect, even the release of that water was in all likelihood completely unnecessary. This thread has been hilariously panicky with hand wringing and fearmongering galore... and aside from some bait shops in Canton, everyone was fine.
Even with the odd/even cycle, I can still water every day with a few hours difference, on even days, I start watering at the stroke of midnight and can then water again beginning about 10PM. The grass won't notice the couple hours of difference.
Hefner is now only about 4” from full pool, and might yet make it this week. That will mean something like 1-1/2’ of movement in less than a week. I nerdily follow that lake’s elevation fairly closely, and I don’t believe I ever recall that much movement in such a short time.
I'm surprised Canton lake is still 3.17 ft below normal.
According to the Oklahoma Water Resource Board's map Hefner is now at normal level
https://www.owrb.ok.gov/supply/droug...%20Storage.pdf
With most of the rivers high right now, they probably will store some extra in the next couple weeks
https://waterwatch.usgs.gov/new/inde...eal&r=ok&w=map
I mean, it BASICALLY is. It’s now a little over an inch shy of its full pool elevation, which is 1199’. It’s basically picked up two full feet over the past three days. It’ll probably be above full pool by later tonight at its current pace.
Instead of the website you cited I’d encourage visiting this one, which provides much more detail and accuracy: https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitorin...093&period=P7D
They are finally mowing at Hefner!!
And thank you Mother Nature for filling the lake.
Looks like the gage height has reached as high as 1201.1' in the past. Wonder how close we will get to that given the widespread 4-6" rain totals in the watershed over the past three days.
As of 11:15pm July 14, Hefner lake level is 1200.6 feet.
https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitorin...093&period=P7D
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